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...Benedict now finds himself in an unfamiliar position as he embarks on the most important mission of his papacy. Having thrust himself to the center of the global debate and earned the vilification of the Muslim street, he must weigh hard options. Does he seize his new platform, insisting that another great faith has potentially deadly flaws and daring it to discuss them, while exhorting Western audiences to be morally armed? Or does he back away from further confrontation in the hope of tamping down the rage his words have already provoked? Those who know him say he was clearly...
...reaction to the character was mixed.“I asked the writers, ‘Why are you introducing this character?’” says Harris.He eventually came around to their point of view, though. “They really wanted to give Beethoven a platform on which to speak,” he says, “on which to talk about his work and to express himself to someone, and I think it works in the film.”THE IGNORANT SYMPHONYUltimately, Harris says he hopes that the film will reveal Beethoven...
...impressive how much bizarre joviality has been jammed into these three minutes of make-believe. And it all looks very good: dancers move in fast forward to appear like wind-up dolls, Stefani strums a key and sings to her own von Trapp band. This video is really a platform for the queen of hip-pop to chastise the imitators by showing them how it’s really done. Needless to say, I’m wound up. —Kathleen A. Fedornak
Apparently two Matherites (one crazy, one stupid) are starting a renegade campaign to capture the top two spots on the U.C. Their platform is undecided, though rumor has it they spent four hours storyboarding their first promotional video, coming soon to a youtube near...
...Many of the winning Democratic candidates, such as Brown, ran on a populist platform, emphasizing pocketbook issues like raising the minimum wage and attacking oil and drug companies. But even if economic populism did help elect many Democrats, will it necessarily sell in a presidential race? You might remember that a Democratic presidential candidate once spent the latter half of his campaign railing about the evils of powerful corporate interests and was widely criticized for it by many in his own party and lost. His name was Al Gore. And the Democrats can't even agree on the hero...